Life Trajectories of Youth Committing to Climate Activism
This article draws from a study investigating the life trajectories of 17 youth climate activists from 14 countries through semi-structured, life memory interviews using Internet-based …
Children, Nature & Sustainability
Wildlands for Children: Consideration of the Value of Natural Environments in Landscape Planning
Landscapes are, in part, expressions of culture and they serve a support for the continuance of particular cultures or subcultures. When one looks closely at …
The Roots of Environmental Concern
In the first step to construct a model of the development of environmental concern, theories of children’s understanding of environmental processes are moral development are …
Action Research: The Critical Role of Children’s Environmental Education in Community-based Sustainable Development
The question of how children become concerned about the environment is a very important one for anyone who believes that a concerned and informed citizen …
Learning Through Gardening
This publication includes two brief essay, one by Roger Hart, and the other by Louise Chawla. In each the authors address the role of gardening …
The Roots of Environmental Concern
This paper is a fist stage in the construction of a model of the development of children’s concern for the physical environment. To explore this …
Affection for Nature and the Promotion of Stewardship in Childhood
The environmental education of children is being promoted as essential to the establishment of a citizenry which is more caring toward the environment. But education …
Bridging the Gap: Save the Children’s Transitional Housing Project After the Tsunami in Ampara district, Sri Lanka
This report documents the housing process that Save the Children and its partners developed in the district of Ampara, Sri Lanka after the tsunami. The …
The implications of climate change for children in lower-income countries
This article provides a brief overview of the implications for children of climate change—both of extreme weather events and more gradual changes, along with the …
The impacts of climate change for children in poor urban areas
This paper discusses the particular and disproportionate risks to urban children in poverty from various aspects of climate change, both extreme events and changing means. It …
